# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bebo-valdes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:44.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bebo-valdes"
name: "Bebo Valdés"
slug: "bebo-valdes"
description: "Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro, better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band arrangements and compositions of mambo, chachachá and batanga, a genre he created in 1952."
tagline: "Cuban musician (1918–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bebo_Vald%C3%A9s_-_2008_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1918-10-09"
deathDate: "2013-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.73722666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883803/"
    handle:    "nm0883803"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump